Bill Summary
HB 955 Mental Health Treatment and Examinations (2021 Session)
Mental Health Treatment and Examinations: Specifies additional persons who may consent to mental health treatment; revises frequency with which restriction on patient's right to communicate or receive visitors must be reviewed; authorizes receiving facility & counties to seek assistance from mobile crisis response team; revises criteria for involuntary examination; revises standards for use of physical force & restraint in taking custody of persons subject to ex parte orders; revises provisions on return of firearms to persons after confiscation; revises who may testify as to patients history in considering criteria for involuntary outpatient services; specifies rights to treatment of persons in county & municipal detention facilities. Effective Date: July 1, 2021
02/12/21
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Filed
02/26/21
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Referred to Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee; Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; Judiciary Committee; Health & Human Services Committee
02/26/21
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Now in Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
04/30/21
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Died in Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
No amendments to this bill text filed.
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